Historical Marker

Oliver Hardy, Genius of Comedy

Madison · Morgan County · Erected 2002

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The Story

Before fame in the Laurel and Hardy comedy duo, young Oliver Norvell Hardy spent part of his childhood in Madison, where his widowed mother ran a hotel and he attended grammar school after the family's 1890s years in town.

About this site

Oliver Hardy, Genius of Comedy is a historical marker in Madison, Morgan County, erected in 2002. It is one of 42 historical markers documented in Morgan County, among 112 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.5955, -83.4668 near Madison. The nearest cataloged historic site is In Memory of the Boys from Morgan County, Georgia (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Morgan County Veterans Memorial Walk, William Tappan Thompson, and E.R. Lambert.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 33.5955, -83.4668 · Madison, Morgan County

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